April 2023 Issue

Table Of Contents       

(April 2023; Volume 90: Number 6)

 

Body Frame–Based Hypertension Risk Assessment—Has the Time Come?

Anurag Bajpai                                                                                                                                                                              

Toxic Shock Syndrome: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenge!

Lalit Takia and Rakesh Lodha                                                                                                                                                    

Scoring Tools to Predict Neonatal Mortality: Where Do We Stand Today?

Harish Chellani and Sugandha Arya                                                                                                                                          

Clinical Scores for Sick Neonates

  1. Adhisivam                                                                                                                                                                                   

Slow Low-Efficiency Dialysis in Children

Mukta Mantan        

                                                                                                                                                                        

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Establishing a Unique, Single Cutoff Value for Body Frame Size for Screening

for Risk of Hypertension in Indian Children and Adolescents—A Multicenter Study

Smruti Y. Vispute, Rubina M. Mandlik, Vaman V. Khadilkar, Ketan M. Gondhalekar

and Anuradha V. Khadilkar                                                                                                                                                         

Clinical Profile, Intensive Care Needs, and Short-Term Outcome of Toxic Shock Syndrome Among Children: A 10-Year Single-Centre Experience from North India

Suresh Kumar Angurana, Puspraj Awasthi, Sudeep K.C., Karthi Nallasamy, Arun Bansal

and Muralidharan Jayashree                                                                                                                                                        

Evaluation of Modified Extended Sick Neonate Score to Predict In-Hospital Mortality among Newborns Admitted to Resource-Poor Settings in Rural India

Ajay Jayasheel, Barathy Chandrasegaran, Vellanki Bramha Kumar

and N. Shivaramakrishna Babji                                                                                                                                                  

Change in Score for Neonatal Acute Physiology-II Measurements for Prediction of Mortality in Severely Septic Preterm Neonates

Rajendra Prasad Anne, Venkataseshan Sundaram and Praveen Kumar                                                                            

Feasibility and Efficacy of Sustained Low-Efficiency Dialysis in Critically Ill Children with Severe Acute Kidney Injury

Menka Yadav, Anand N. Tiwari, Rakesh Lodha, Jhuma Sankar, Priyanka Khandelwal,

Pankaj Hari, Aditi Sinha and Arvind Bagga                                                                                                                            

SYMPOSIUM ON AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS

Guest Editors: Pratibha Singhi and Constance Smith-Hicks

Early Diagnosis and Management of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in Low-Resource Countries—Challenges and Strategies

Pratibha Singhi and Constance Smith-Hicks                                                                                                                            

Early Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder: What the Pediatricians Should Know

Pratibha Singhi and Prahbhjot Malhi                                                                                                                                       

Practical Aspects of ASD Management—What Pediatricians Should Know

Monica Juneja, Smitha Sairam, Ridhimaa Jain and Arpita Gupta                                                                                     

Early Identification of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Strategies for Use in Local Communities

Roula Choueiri, William T. Garrison and Valerie Tokatli                                                                                                     

Adequate Management of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children in India

Rajneesh Mahajan and Rajesh Sagar           

                                                                                                                              

SPECIAL ARTICLE

Pertussis in India: Past, Present, and Future

  1. J. Chitkara, S. Balasubramanian, Jaydeep Choudhury, Nabaneeta Dash,

Kevin Forsyth, Ulrich Heininger, Daniela Flavia Hozbor, Rudzani Muloiwa, Tina Tan

and Carl Heinz Wirsing von König                                                                                                                                              

CLINICAL BRIEFS

Gastrostomy Tube Feeding in Indian Children with Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease

Shally Sharma, Aditi Sinha, Rohan Malik and Arvind Bagga                                                                                             

External Validation of the Neonatal Mortality Risk-2000 Score to Predict In-Hospital Mortality in Neonates Weighing 2000 g or Less

Rameshwar Prasad and Minni Rani Akhouri                                                                                                                          

 

PICTURE OF THE MONTH

Renal Lymphangiomatosis

Siddhi Chawla                                                                                                                                                                                 

 

SCIENTIFIC LETTERS

Mutations in the TSPAN12 and KIF11 Genes in Severe Retinopathy of Prematurity

Huiqing Sun, Zhiyi Xia, Zhansheng Wang, Lifeng Li, Yuebing Lu, Li Li, Lei Liu and Jing Liu                                          

Prognosis Value of Blood Pressure Variability in Children with Vasoinhibitory Type Vasovagal Syncopetis

Shuangshuang Gu, Shuo Wang, Yuwen Wang, Ping Liu, Juan Zhang, Hong Cai, Runmei Zou

and Cheng Wang                                                                                                                                                                              

Impact of Anxiety on Growth of Indian Children and Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Multicenter Study

Chirantap Oza, Devishree Dunna, Nirali Lohiya, Neha Kajale, Nikhil Lohiya,

Vaman Khadilkar, Ketan Gondhalekar and Anuradha Khadilkar                                                                                      

Arterial Stiffness and Cardiac Function. s in Children with Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome

Emre Leventog˘ lu, Akif Kavgacı, Fatma Incedere, Semiha Tokgöz and Bahar Büyükkaragöz                     

Use of Ketogenic Diet in Two Indian Children with a Rare Early-Onset Epileptic Encephalopathy

Pradeep Kumar Gunasekaran, Veena Laxmi, Asha Bilamge and Lokesh Saini                                                                  

Persistent Thrombocytopenia in a Well Newborn: Looking Beyond Neonatal Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia

Shrutiprajna Kar, Praneetha Mude, Usha Devi, Tapas Som, Pankaj Kumar Mohanty,

Tanushree Sahoo and Prabodha Kumar Das                                                                                                                             

 Clinical Characteristics, Treatment, and Outcome of 43 Cases of Infant-Onset Takayasu Arteritis

Xiaozhen Zhao, Chao Li, Weiying Kuang, Jianghong Deng, Junmei Zhang, Xiaohua Tan,

Shipeng Li, Jiang Wang and Caifeng Li                                                                                                                                      

Serum Cystatin C: A Potential Biomarker in Pulmonary Hypertension in Children

Cihangir Sahin and Ozge Pamukcu             

                                                                                                                               

CORRESPONDENCES

Phenobarbital Toxicity in a Neonate Presenting with Intramyelinic Edema

Meenal Garg and Vivek Jain                                                                                                                                                         

Bedside Peripheral Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

in the Rescue of a Low-Birth-Weight Neonate with Cardiorespiratory Failure

Vikrant Pradeep Balote, Karthik Nagesh N., Kavya Mallikarjun, N. S. Devanand,

Maitri Chaudhuri and Lalchand H. Bandagi                                                                                                                            

Measles Elimination in India—Shifting Goal Post

Abhishek Kumar, Sarthak Das and Saroj Kumar Tripathy                                                                                                   

Fulminant Encephalitis Caused by SARS-CoV-2 in a Two-Month-Old Infant: Correspondence

Josef Finsterer                                                                                                                                                                                   

Fulminant Encephalitis Caused by SARS-CoV-2 in a Two-Month-Old Infant: Authors’ Reply

Abdelbari Marwa, Soyah Nejla, Tilouche Samia, Bouguila Jihene, Hannachi Neila

and Boughammoura Lamia                                                                                                                                                          

Severity and Cardiac Involvement in Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children: Correspondence

Arpita Chattopadhyay                                                                                                                                                                  

Severity and Cardiac Involvement in Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children: Authors’ Reply

Veena Raghunathan, Maninder Dhaliwal and Sunit Singhi